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Well done Dublin. Probably had a few more gears to go through if they wanted.

Shocking free taking. Full back line ropey all through especially under a high ball. Rest did ok. Adam Gallagher was disappointing imo.

Keegan and SOS are welcome returns.

Dublin could've won that by any margin they wanted, Mannion and McCarthy operating at a different level.
There was even 2 Dublin players mouthing at one another and them 7 points up.
Didn't think Gallagher was the worst of them, least he got on the ball and wasn't afraid to get stuck in,
Cafferkey, Drake, O'Donoghue and Coen were awful.

Yeah im a bit of a loon , impulsive reaction , ott stuff etc but sure wouldnt the internet be pretty dull if everyone was reserved,conservative, super intelligent , balanced etc . Crikey , ya need the ejits like yours truly too , the high stool brigade who never kicked a ball , if ye didnt have us sure there would be no craic at all.

People need to let it go more in general , have a few pints , shtick out the chest, bang the counter , say fook the dubs , we'll bate the shite out of them next week. 
Why is there no fun allowed anymore ,duh like, its like robots we are becoming.

Thing is yer man WJ is a conceited knob, you can get banned for criticizing a player but all manner of other stuff is let go.

Galway are brilliant.

Excellent post

Galway moved the ball a lot quicker and had the legs on Mayo when they ran at them.
Comer, Brannigan and Walsh all on top of their men.

Some of the Mayo lateral stuff was hard to watch, over back, back again..
There's few Mayo lads on that team that are just not up to it. Cafferky is finished, Coen is far too slow and I can't see Gibbons having the mobility for championship either.


Doesn't look like we've found any new players so far up to the level required, so we're back to the same crew again with no guarantees that they'll be as good as before what with serious injuries and all.

Less said about the end the better, COC taking out his frustration from not being able to kick the ball over the bar, probably as well he sits the next one out.

That's Mayo's biggest issue, blame everyone and everything but themselves. Sad really.

That has always been their problem. The lost many All Ireland's to teams much worse that Dublin.

Always ready to stick the boot in as per usual.

Yeah, there we go. Focus on me rather than the point at hand.

I don't consider it a point, just a trite inane comment that gives you the opportunity to weigh in.

Therein lies the problem.

It's a problem alright when people throw out handy one-liners with no basis in fact to suit their own negative agenda.

That's Mayo's biggest issue, blame everyone and everything but themselves. Sad really.

That has always been their problem. The lost many All Ireland's to teams much worse that Dublin.

Always ready to stick the boot in as per usual.

Yeah, there we go. Focus on me rather than the point at hand.

I don't consider it a point, just a trite inane comment that gives you the opportunity to weigh in.

That's Mayo's biggest issue, blame everyone and everything but themselves. Sad really.

That has always been their problem. The lost many All Ireland's to teams much worse that Dublin.

Always ready to stick the boot in as per usual.

Dublin 7, absolutely Mayo did it in 12 and it was mayhem, I couldn't keep up with all the cynical stuff, physio s , water boy , mayo played f**k that year, I just want to see it stamped out as a whole if at all possible.

And who called them out on it? Yes the great soothsayer Joe Brolly, and what did he repeat on Sun night after all those last minute antics, Dublin are a credit to the GAA.

On Keegan, he did what he had to do, if it had worked I'd have been delighted and there'd have been uproar but can anyone honestly say they wouldn't like their team to do the same? So when I see the Dublin  lads pulling us down all over the field I can't complain either. Both are examples of cheating and both are what needs to be done to win games some times. Every team does it.

Fair play to you for being honest. Honestly my estimation of Keegan went up for his doing that. Classless sure, but he showed a desire to win by doing that far more than any other Mayo man on the pitch did.

Couldn't laud Keegan for doing that, it was low and proves nothing about his desire to win more than other Mayo players.

Dublin will be looking to absolutely murder us like they did in the league, goes without saying that we need a decent start. Be concerned too with the number of easy frees we're giving away, we don't appear to be as disciplined in the tackle as we were last year. If we see Moran and COC being dragged towards their own 40 by their markers we'll know the game is up.

I can see Dublin starting as follows:

Kilkenny, O'Callaghan, Scully
Rock, Connolly, Mannion

Fitzsimmons to mark COC, Cooper on Moran with McMahon picking up a half forward and COS covering the fullbacks.

No backs or midfield, we might have a chance so.

this must be one of the Greatest GAA PR coups of all time
Kerry full back line were a shambles , a forward subbed off after 20 mins a midfielder and Full back at half time a penalty denied to mayo for handling in the Small square
But  all the attention falls on the mayo full back who held his man to a point .

is it because the only players most people are aware of are Donaghy and Aidan  O Sé.

Yes that's it surely, Donaghy had no influence outside that point, cop on would you.

[Treating Donaghy as something special rather than a limited footballer is where most teams make their first error with regards marking him.]

I think most people will be able to admit that it's fairly cut and dry. 'Two penalties'! Mother of god 

You'd be a good man to ask , what do the Narries handle Donaghy when they are playing the Stacks.
He doesn't seem to do a lot of damage ?

Ah he does plenty a lot of the time. He's in and out from midfield with Stacks a lot which curtails him but at that level when he's fired up it's just damage limitation.

Our full back line wouldn't be the biggest so it's generally just a case of trying to get as many bodies around him as you can (and hoping the weather is bad).

Yeah, I think you know you are doing well when you see him drifting out the field .
He looks slow in the middle of the field.

Not really. He started doing it of his own accord after 20 hellish minutes against Galway.

Treating Donaghy as something special rather than a limited footballer is where most teams make their first error with regards marking him.

Heard it all now, you've some standards if you think Donaghy's limited.

Rochford must have money on the opposition at this stage, some unbelievable calls again, Cafferkey starting is just beyond farcical at this stage. Drake and Coen coming on, Boyle going off, just beggars belief.

Looks like Parsons is out, going to be a major loss, with Vaughan probably to come in, he's not great cover for that area.